Whitlam Quotes

“He embraced political power not as an end in itself, but for what it could accomplish for the betterment of society;”
― Mungo MacCallum, The Good, the Bad & the Unlikely: Australia's Prime Ministers

“Gough was a serious student but found time to gain a blue in rowing; he was later to say that the sport was an apt one for men in public life because you could face one way while going in the other.”
― Mungo MacCallum, The Good, the Bad & the Unlikely: Australia's Prime Ministers

“The family was serious about education; after dinner, Fred was known to issue volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica to his children and guests for a little light reading.”
― Mungo MacCallum, The Good, the Bad & the Unlikely: Australia's Prime Ministers

“A whole generation of Australians may well agree that abolition of school milk was one of the finer achievements of the Whitlam government, up there with free university education and ending conscription.”
― Jan O'Connell, A Timeline of Australian Food: From Mutton to Masterchef